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  1. The concept Health related Quality of life (HRQOL) is increasingly recognized as an important health outcome measure in clinical and research fields. The present study attempted to evaluate the psychometric pr...

    Authors: Manjula Nishanthi Danansuriya and Lalini C Rajapaksa
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:105
  2. The Chronic Care Model (CCM) has achieved widespread acceptance and reflects the core elements of patient-centred care in chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In the Netherlands the extent t...

    Authors: Jane Murray Cramm and Anna Petra Nieboer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:104
  3. Sexual function among women undergoing hemodialysis (HD) is under-studied and there is no consensus about the effect of sexual dysfunction (SD) on their quality of life (QoL). We aimed to determine the prevale...

    Authors: Paulo Roberto Santos, José Roberto Frota Gomes Capote Júnior, Juliana Uchoa Cavalcanti, Cyntia Brito Vieira, Ana Rochelle Mesquita Rocha, Natália Alves Mineiro Apolônio and Elaine Barbosa de Oliveira
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:103
  4. The aim of this prospective randomized single-center study was to investigate whether sling exercise therapy is superior to conventional exercises in osteoporosis patients.

    Authors: Guido Schröder, Andreas Knauerhase, Guenther Kundt and Hans-Christof Schober
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:101
  5. Fatigue is a disruptive symptom that inhibits normal functional performance of COPD patients in daily activities. The availability of a short, simple, reliable and valid scale would improve assessment of the c...

    Authors: Khaled Al-shair, Hana Muellerova, Janelle Yorke, Stephen I Rennard, Emiel FM Wouters, Nicola A Hanania, Amir Sharafkhaneh and Jørgen Vestbo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:100
  6. Health-related quality of life studies among adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using the EQ-5D, have been short term and have not assessed change over years. This study assessed the change in health status...

    Authors: Susan Grandy and Kathleen M Fox
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:99
  7. Longitudinal studies analyzing the correlations between disease-specific and generic health status questionnaires at different time points in patients with advanced COPD are lacking. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Sarah Wilke, Daisy JA Janssen, Emiel FM Wouters, Jos MGA Schols, Frits ME Franssen and Martijn A Spruit
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:98
  8. This study explored the psychometric properties (internal consistency, construct validity, discriminative ability) of the Juniper Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (Mini AQLQ-J) and the Sydney Asthma Q...

    Authors: Christian Joachim Apfelbacher, Christina Jones, Matthew Hankins and Helen Smith
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:97
  9. To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Taiwan Chinese Version of the EORTC QLQ-PR25 health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire for patients with prostate cancer.

    Authors: Yu-Jun Chang, Wen-Miin Liang, Hsi-Chin Wu, Hsueh-Chun Lin, Jong-Yi Wang, Tsai-Chung Li, Yi-Chun Yeh and Chih-Hung Chang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:96
  10. Severe obesity is a complex condition that is associated with a wide range of serious health complications and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL). In addition to physiological factors, activity and...

    Authors: Randi Andenæs, May S Fagermoen, Hilde Eide and Anners Lerdal
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:95
  11. Expectations held by patients and health professionals may affect treatment choices and participation (by both patients and health professionals) in therapeutic interventions in contemporary patient-centered h...

    Authors: Steven McPhail and Terry Haines
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:94
  12. The aim of this study was to identify what is most important to the quality of life (QoL) of those who experience homelessness by directly soliciting the views of homeless and hard-to-house Canadians themselve...

    Authors: Anita Palepu, Anita M Hubley, Lara B Russell, Anne M Gadermann and Mary Chinni
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:93
  13. Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) and its treatment are associated with a variety of patient-reported symptoms and impacts. Some CHC symptoms and impacts may be difficult to evaluate through objective clinical testing...

    Authors: Leah Kleinman, Sally Mannix, Yong Yuan, Shannon Kummer, Gilbert L’Italien and Dennis Revicki
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:92
  14. The study aims to assess Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among Hepatitis B (HB) patients and to identify significant predictors of the HRQoL in HB patients of Quetta, Pakistan.

    Authors: Noman ul Haq, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Asrul A Shafie, Fahad Saleem and Hisham Aljadhey
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:91
  15. To evaluate changes in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in different sub-groups of a cohort of patients with typical atrial flutter (AFL) treated with cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI) radiofrequency catheter ...

    Authors: Javier García Seara, Francisco Gude, Pilar Cabanas, José L Martínez-Sande, Xesús Fernández López, Antonio Hernández Madrid, Concepción Moro and José González Juanatey R
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:90
  16. Receiving a cancer diagnosis affects family members as well as the person diagnosed. Family members often provide support for the sick person in daily life out of duty and love, and may not always think of the...

    Authors: Catarina Sjolander, Bo Rolander, Johannes Järhult, Jan Mårtensson and Gerd Ahlstrom
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:89
  17. Assessing Health-related Quality of life (HRQoL) is necessary to evaluate care and treatments provided to patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), in addition to the traditional assessment of clinical ou...

    Authors: Rémy Dumas, Raphaëlle Richieri, Eric Guedj, Pascal Auquier, Christophe Lancon and Laurent Boyer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:87
  18. Given that bariatric surgery (BS) and lifestyle intervention (LI) represent two vastly different approaches to treating severe obesity, there is growing interest in whether individuals who seek BS versus LI al...

    Authors: Dale S Bond, Jessica L Unick, John M Jakicic, Sivamainthan Vithiananthan, Jennifer Trautvetter, Kevin CO’Leary and Rena R Wing
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:86
  19. Previous pediatric studies have observed a cross-informant variance in patient self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) versus parent proxy-reported HRQoL. This study assessed in older children and...

    Authors: Thomas R Vetter, Cynthia L Bridgewater and Gerald McGwin Jr
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:85
  20. Psychiatric outpatients with a refugee background have often been exposed to a variety of potentially traumatizing events, with numerous negative consequences for their mental health and quality of life. Howev...

    Authors: Dinu-Stefan Teodorescu, Johan Siqveland, Trond Heir, Edvard Hauff, Tore Wentzel-Larsen and Lars Lien
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:84
  21. There is a lack of German-language, disease-specific health related quality of life instruments applicable in cardiac rehabilitation. The purpose of this project was to investigate the psychometric properties ...

    Authors: Lukas Gramm, Erik Farin and Wilfried H Jaeckel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:83
  22. There is a need for a disease-specific instrument for assessing health-related quality of life in adults with hereditary angioedema due to C1 inhibitor deficiency, a rare, disabling and life-threatening diseas...

    Authors: Nieves Prior, Eduardo Remor, Carmen Gómez-Traseira, Concepción López-Serrano, Rosario Cabañas, Javier Contreras, Ángel Campos, Victoria Cardona, Stefan Cimbollek, Teresa González-Quevedo, Mar Guilarte, Dolores Hernández Fernández de Rojas, Carmen Marcos, María Rubio, Miguel Ángel Tejedor-Alonso and Teresa Caballero
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:82
  23. Use of atypical antipsychotics (AA) in combination with an antidepressant is recommended as an augmentation strategy for patients with depression. However, there is a paucity of data comparing aripiprazole and...

    Authors: Iftekhar Kalsekar, Jan-Samuel Wagner, Marco DiBonaventura, Jay Bates, Robert Forbes and Tony Hebden
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:81
  24. A critical component that influences the measurement properties of a patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument is the rating scale. Yet, there is a lack of general consensus regarding optimal rating scale form...

    Authors: Jyoti Khadka, Vijaya K Gothwal, Colm McAlinden, Ecosse L Lamoureux and Konrad Pesudovs
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:80
  25. Development of new tinnitus treatments requires prospective placebo-controlled randomized trials to prove their efficacy. The Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ) is a validated and commonly used instrument for assessm...

    Authors: Ilya Adamchic, Peter Alexander Tass, Berthold Langguth, Christian Hauptmann, Michael Koller, Martin Schecklmann, Florian Zeman and Michael Landgrebe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:79
  26. Coronory heart disease (CHD) is a common medical problem worldwide that demands shared care of general practitioners and cardiologists for concerned patients. In order to improve the cooperation between both m...

    Authors: Lena Kramer, Oliver Hirsch, Kathrin Schlöβler, Susanne Träger, Erika Baum and Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:78
  27. TB and HIV co-morbidity amount to a massive burden on healthcare systems in many countries. This study investigates health related quality of life among tuberculosis (TB), TB retreatment and TB-HIV co-infected...

    Authors: Julia Louw, Karl Peltzer, Pamela Naidoo, Gladys Matseke, Gugu Mchunu and Bomkazi Tutshana
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:77
  28. Aims of this study were to identify aspects of functioning and health relevant to patients with vertigo expressed by ICF categories and to explore the potential of the ICF to describe the patient perspective i...

    Authors: Martin Mueller, Edith Schuster, Ralf Strobl and Eva Grill
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:75
  29. Vertebral fractures could lead to reduced physical, social and mental functioning, and loss of personal independence. Therefore, during the treatment of osteoporosis, it has become necessary to examine the cha...

    Authors: Ivana Tadic, Nada Vujasinovic Stupar, Ljiljana Tasic, Dejan Stevanovic, Aleksandar Dimic, Bojana Stamenkovic, Sonja Stojanovic and Sasa Milenkovic
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:74
  30. Children with mental health problems have been neglected in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) studies. Therefore, the aims of the current study were 1) to assess the influence of the presence of mental or ph...

    Authors: Michelle Dey, Meichun Mohler-Kuo and Markus A Landolt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:73
  31. Sleep disturbance is a complex health problem in ageing global populations decreasing quality of life among many older people. Geographic, cultural, and ethnic differences in sleep patterns have been documente...

    Authors: Catherine MH Lo and Paul H Lee
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:72
  32. To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients in different stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) up to initiation of dialysis treatment and to explore possible correlating and influencing fac...

    Authors: Agneta A Pagels, Birgitta Klang Söderkvist, Charlotte Medin, Britta Hylander and Susanne Heiwe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:71
  33. In developing the PatientsLikeMe online platform for patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), we required a patient-reported assessment of functional status that was easy to complete and identified disability in...

    Authors: Paul Wicks, Timothy E Vaughan and Michael P Massagli
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:70

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  34. The aim of this study was to explore, via empirical comparison, the relationship between quality of life, as measured by the ICECAP-O capability index (a new instrument designed to measure and value quality of...

    Authors: Leah Couzner, Julie Ratcliffe and Maria Crotty
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:69
  35. Patient recall or the application of population norms are commonly used methods to estimate (unobservable) health status prior to acute-onset illness or injury; however, both measures are potentially subject t...

    Authors: Ross Wilson, Sarah Derrett, Paul Hansen and John Langley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:68
  36. Sarcoidosis is a chronic disease with different phenotypic manifestations. Health-related quality of life is an important aspect in sarcoidosis, yet difficult to measure. The objective of this study was to ide...

    Authors: Julie M Bourbonnais, Subramanian Malaisamy, Bhavinkumar D Dalal, Priyan C Samarakoon, Swapna R Parikh and Lobelia Samavati
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:67
  37. In an international, randomized Phase III trial ipilimumab demonstrated a significant overall survival benefit in previously treated advanced melanoma patients. This report summarizes health-related quality of...

    Authors: Dennis A Revicki, Alfons JM van den Eertwegh, Paul Lorigan, Celeste Lebbe, Gerald Linette, Christian H Ottensmeier, Shima Safikhani, Marianne Messina, Axel Hoos, Samuel Wagner and Srividya Kotapati
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:66
  38. A strong consensus exists for a systematic approach to linguistic validation of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and discrete methods for assessing their psychometric properties. Despite the need for ...

    Authors: Gwerfyl Roberts, Seren Roberts, Richard Tranter, Rhiannon Whitaker, Emma Bedson, Siobhan Tranter, Delyth Prys, Heledd Owen and Yvonne Sylvestre
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:64
  39. The study aimed to develop and test a Malay version of the Child-OIDP index, evaluate its psychometric properties and report on the prevalence of oral impacts on eight daily performances in a sample of 11–12 y...

    Authors: Zamros YM Yusof and Nasruddin Jaafar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:63
  40. Information on the impact of oral health on quality of life of children younger than 8 years is mostly based on parental reports, as methodological and conceptual challenges have hindered the development of re...

    Authors: Georgios Tsakos, Yvonne I Blair, Huda Yusuf, William Wright, Richard G Watt and Lorna M D Macpherson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:62
  41. The aim of the project was to develop an instrument for the assessment of subjective quality of life specific to schizophrenic persons on the basis of patients’ views on their own life and on sound psychometri...

    Authors: Michael Franz, Michael Fritz, Bernd Gallhofer and Thorsten Meyer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:61
  42. Acne is a very common condition and has a substantial impact on patients’ quality of life. This study was carried out to determine the impact of acne and its clinical severity on health related quality of life...

    Authors: Kameran Hassan Ismail and Khalis Bilal Mohammed-Ali
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:60
  43. Health-related quality of life is a very important issue in children with end-stage renal disease and their family. Moreover, this can be a lifelong problem. In this study, we performed a cross-sectional inves...

    Authors: Ki-Soo Park, Min Hyun Cho, Il Soo Ha, Hee Gyung Kang, Hae Il Cheong, Young Seo Park, Yoon Jung Lee, Joo Hoon Lee and Hee Yeon Cho
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:59
  44. This study examined the measurement properties of the Japanese version of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Hepatocellular Carcinoma-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire ...

    Authors: Naoko Mikoshiba, Ryosuke Tateishi, Makoto Tanaka, Tomoko Sakai, Jane M Blazeby, Norihiro Kokudo, Kazuhiko Koike and Keiko Kazuma
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:58

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